After completing his PhD in Astrophysics in 2015, Santiago pursued a postdoctoral position at ETH University in Zürich, Switzerland. He transitioned from academia to the industry in 2018 and  worked as a consultant in Data Science. In 2019 he started working as data scientist at different departments of Swiss International Air Lines and Lufthansa Group. Since October 2022 he is the Technical Lead, where he leads technically a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers, oversees the technical aspects of data science projects, provides technical guidance and expertise to the team, manages project planning and timelines and fosters collaboration with other teams and business units to ensure the success of data science and AI projects across Lufthansa Group.